What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the pleasure of youth on pain of death.
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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